User blog comment:Semerone/Den Ei Rai Bu translation blog/@comment-30866120-20170826185325

Stage Select screen


BATTLE MODE

Stages:

Text that is said by Chiaki:

Translation credits: Zenki -- Translation of the whole screenshot / menu

'''Yokoshima kuroshiro... Hmm...''' (heavy thinking)

The Kanji of Yokoshima kuroshiro actually translate like this:

Yokoshima=

邪 (Yokoshima) = evil

I already saw this one, when I translated some stuff related to Amon. Both Semerone and myself chose to translate it as "dark". (see the "dark arts", which are "evil arts" in the original text, which wouldn't make much sense for western audiences)


 * -|Kuro=

黒 (Kuro) = black

This one is simply the color "black". (LOL!)


 * -|Shiro=

城 (Shiro) = castle

Actually it makes sense, that Karuma would live in some sort of castle in this game, ... Oi! It just clicked in my brain! I think the Yokoshima kuroshiro (aka the "Evil Black Castle") is meant to be inside Karuma's tree form. This would make sense, as Karuma has a strange, sky-blue color in the final battle and Hyouinomi wandering around inside Karuma wouldn't be that far fetched... After all, DERB is based on the anime's Karuma ark, so this would make lots of sense, with second form Karuma being something like her spirit or soul.

So... maybe, the "castle" mentioned here, isn't a castle in the sense of the building, but more like a metaphor! Like... as in "pitch-black heart". Referencing Karuma's pitch black heart, while she's a tree.

(moved here from the related talk page from August 26, 2017)